Good rundown. Thanks.
I’ve always found “message movies”, even ones I agree with, to be of poor quality because they are trying to shoehorn the message in even when it may not work. Sounds like that is what happened with the last mainline movie, and poisoned the well for this one.
And as you pointed out, it may also be just poorly written and/or executed in this case. The 20 something Anakin Skywalker character was so terrible he was an embarrassment.
Thing is, when they build these characters, they really need to think about who the person is they are building, and who the audience is that they are presenting the character to.
Maybe they just need better writers.
Well the Solo actor is far better than the Anakin actor... It honestly is not a bad movie, its not a great movie.. but its not failing because its a bad movie. I can’t say it doesn’t have any politicks in in, but it clearly just doesn’t quite get where it needs to be.
Like I said, I could intellectually read the humor that was being attempted, but the audience, none of them in my showing laughed at many of the Soloesque lines that brought comic relief and the personality that is Han in the original movies.
I don’t know if the actor just couldn’t sell it, or if the timing was just wrong... I think it was perhaps a bit of both, but the director should have caught this.. .and Ron Howard is not a slouch of a director so I was kind of surprised that those comical lines, didn’t get the effect/pause etc they should have..
I don’t think it was written terribly as it just got lost in execution.
Either way, like I said, it wasn’t horrible, and it wasn’t nearly as bad as the last mainline.... It did have an unnecessary PC/SJW character, but it was a minor play, and honestly if it wasn’t for the press around the whole pansexual thing, I would have chalked that whole subplot up to a droid with self delusions.... other than the scene where it is (spoiler alert) killed/dies... and Lando’s reaction seems a bit too much for it... don’t really see that push, though clearly since it made the press that was its intent...
I really think Solo is just paying the price for the last main line movie being so bad, and the SJW and Kennedy reactions to the critiques of it basically telling the fans they are just too stupid and back woods to “get it” as to why Solo failed.
I honestly thing Disney will clean house at Lucasfilm... I think the situation at Marvel Comics taught them a valuable lesson... If they don’t purge Kennedy and the SJW continent at Lucasfilm soon, I would be surprised.